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CompactBars - General

CompactBars is an addon that is designed to create bars for nearly everything. The difference to the other bar addons is that it does not eat up your screen space. It displays the bars in a very compact way as you can see in the following screenshots.

Cooldowns:

Internal Cooldowns:

AOE (Hurricane):

Everything combined (has bossmods included):

Explanation: (starting with the bar next to the scale)

• First bar: Shows the duration of buffs
• Second bar: Shows the cooldowns
• Third bar: Shows bossmods
• Bars that come after the first three: Show negative effects on different targets

It is possible to display the following things:

• DoTs
• Debuffs
• CCs
• Short buffs (short means that it is not designed for things like Power Word: F.)
• Cooldowns
• Internal cooldowns (like Eclipse or from items)
• Bossmods (needs BigWigs or Deadly Bossmods (the first one is the better option because it uses icons for nearly every bar!)

DoTs

The addon is able to display dots from multiple targets. This means that is able to show a bar for rain of fire on every target!

What is so special?

You may ask yourself why you should choose this addon over another bar addon. A few points which are different to other bar addons:

• You are able to compare everything with only a short look at the bars, because they all use the same size for one second.
• Time your abilities exactly to match boss abilities.
• Easily compare your cooldowns with your buffs.
• Uses very little space on your screen (only one bar per target and a maximum of three bars for yourself).
• Possibility to use a logarithmic scale and a normal scale (if you don't know what a logarithmic scale is you can find a good description here.)
• Vertical bars are possible!

Vertical bars:

IMPORTANT NOTE

The addon does NOT use a logarithmic scale by default (because of a user request) but it has now nearly EVERY spell included. So for example the deathknight has Army of the Dead which has a 20 minute cooldown. If the addon uses the default value it will create very very long bar! So go in the options to the logartihmic scale option and type in the time of your longtest spell. You can also split it up in more segments and type 100, 200 (if you want to add 300 seconds at the end of the bar). You can find a tutorial here